title: Why supervisors should promote feedback-seeking behaviour in medical residency.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Individual disposition of goal orientation and situational factors of the working context, both generate and modulate motives to seek feedback.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We looked for correlations between feedback-seeking and individual goal orientation, motives or concerns of feedback-seeking, working context of medical residents. We focussed on how promotion of feedback-seeking by supervisors and educational environment influenced motives and behaviours of feedback-seeking in residents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Web-based administration of a Likert-type composite questionnaire to residents of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Switzerland and mini-interviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifty-six (45%) of 125 residents completed the questionnaire. After multiple regression analysis promotion of feedback-seeking through supervisors remained the sole predictor correlating with feedback-seeking through inquiry (R(2) = 16) and the motive of self-improvement (R(2) = 0.30). This predictor was also associated with reduced concerns of ego-protection (R(2) = 0.14) and impression-defence (R(2) = 0.18). Performance-avoid goal orientation was associated with concerns of impression-defence (R(2) = 0.36) and ego-protection (R(2) = 0.48). Women had significantly more concerns of ego-protection, residents with more than three years of experience more concerns of impression-defence. Disillusion that PG-training would ever improve, seemed the main reason to refuse participation
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Promotion of feedback-seeking through supervisors combined with delivery of high quality feedback may guide residents towards seeking feedback for professional self-improvement.
authors.affiliation: Cityhospital Triemli Zürich , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Maya M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Bose
authors.forename: Wim H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Gijselaers
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001519:Behavior; D002983:Clinical Competence; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D013557:Switzerland